Meditation, Ancient Medicine, Spiritual & Vibrational Scientific Research

Expansion of Awareness
Meditation practices from all over the world have been studied to some extent. The following is research done on a variety of mantra, meditation, vibrational, spiritual and ancient medical practices. As with all scientific abstracts it is important to remember it is all suggestive in the end as it would seem the rabbit hole never ends.
Having spent many hundreds of hours doing Mantra and other Meditation practices I have found them to be invaluable for achieving a clear mind. Physical changes have developed over time as well.
Attention: Not all abstracts support theories or practices but each abstract has some interesting data concerning theories, belief and facts.
Additional links are from other Universities and research Laboratories along with interesting talks/interviews.
Interesting research demonstrating the prevention of terrorism and war via group meditation. (NEW)
Articles
Videos
Having spent many hundreds of hours doing Mantra and other Meditation practices I have found them to be invaluable for achieving a clear mind. Physical changes have developed over time as well.
Attention: Not all abstracts support theories or practices but each abstract has some interesting data concerning theories, belief and facts.
Additional links are from other Universities and research Laboratories along with interesting talks/interviews.
Interesting research demonstrating the prevention of terrorism and war via group meditation. (NEW)
Articles
- Harvard Gazette Archives Meditation changes temperatures: Mind controls body in extreme experiments.
Videos
- Tibetan Buddhist Monks Meditation and Science. Tummo Meditation
- Russel Brand Interviews Physicist John Hagelin on Meditation
- Documentary About Buddha Boy (1 of 5) Ram Bahadur Bamjan
Ancient Medicine, Meditation, Spiritual & Vibrational Research
- Brain activation during compassion meditation: a case study.
- Focused attention, open monitoring and automatic self-transcending: Categories to organize meditations from Vedic, Buddhist and Chinese traditions.
- New beginnings: evidence that the meditational regimen can lead to optimization of perception, attention, cognition, and other functions.
- Wisdom and method: extraordinary practices for the realization of longevity and optimal health.
- Protection throughout the life span: the psychoneuroimmunologic impact of Indo-Tibetan meditative and yogic practices.
- Tibetan medicine and regeneration.
- Yoga breathing, meditation, and longevity.
- Interoceptive awareness in experienced meditators.
- OPTIMIZING LEARNING AND QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN: A Global Framework for Research and Application.
- Studies of advanced stages of meditation in the tibetan buddhist and vedic traditions. I: a comparison of general changes.
- Psychological adjustment and sleep quality in a randomized trial of the effects of a Tibetan yoga intervention in patients with lymphoma.
- The measurement of regional cerebral blood flow during the complex cognitive task of meditation: a preliminary SPECT study.
- Exploring the nature and functions of the mind: a Tibetan Buddhist meditative perspective.
- Three case reports of the metabolic and electroencephalographic changes during advanced Buddhist meditation techniques.
- Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators. (MUST READ)
- Neural correlates of focused attention and cognitive monitoring in meditation.
- A scale to measure nonattachment: a Buddhist complement to Western research on attachment and adaptive functioning.
- Occipital gamma activation during Vipassana meditation.
- Mastery of the mind East and West: excellence in being and doing and everyday happiness.
- The emerging role of meditation in addressing psychiatric illness, with a focus on substance use disorders.
- Deepening psychoanalytic listening: the marriage of Buddha and Freud.
- The enhancement of visuospatial processing efficiency through Buddhist Deity meditation.
- Zen practice: a training method to enhance the skills of clinical social workers.
- EEG dynamics of experienced Zen meditation practitioners probed by complexity index and spectral measure.
- The effectiveness of a stress coping program based on mindfulness meditation on the stress, anxiety, and depression experienced by nursing . . .
- Pain sensitivity and analgesic effects of mindful states in Zen meditators: a cross-sectional study.
- A review of research on Buddhism and health: 1980-2003.
- Functional brain mapping during recitation of Buddhist scriptures and repetition of the Namu Amida Butsu: a study in experienced Japanese monks.
- The psychological impact of Buddhist counseling for patients suffering from symptoms of anxiety.
- Buddhist psychology, psychotherapy and the brain: a critical introduction.
- Mindfulness meditation and its medical and non-medical applications.
- Learning from experience: Bion's concept of reverie and Buddhist meditation. A comparative study.
- Promoting mindfulness in psychotherapists in training influences the treatment results of their patients: a randomized, double-blind, controlled study.
- Age effects on gray matter volume and attentional performance in Zen meditation.
- Individuals with mental illness can control their aggressive behavior through mindfulness training.
- Loving-kindness meditation for chronic low back pain: results from a pilot trial.
- Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice.
- Meditation's impact on chronic illness.
- Cerebral blood flow during meditative prayer: preliminary findings and methodological issues.
- EEG alpha blocking correlated with perception of inner light during zen meditation.
- Suppressing tumor progression of in vitro prostate cancer cells by emitted psychosomatic power through Zen meditation.
- [Chin Junso--founder of the medical lineage Uirou].
- Brain sources of EEG gamma frequency during volitionally meditation-induced, altered states of consciousness, and experience of the self.
- Zen meditation and ABC relaxation theory: an exploration of relaxation states, beliefs, dispositions, and motivations.
- Effect of Buddhist meditation on serum cortisol and total protein levels, blood pressure, pulse rate, lung volume and reaction time.
- Visual sensitivity and mindfulness meditation.
- Low protein diet and chronic renal failure in Buddhist monks.
- On research in Zen.
- Mental training as a tool in the neuroscientific study of brain and cognitive plasticity.
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging of hippocampal activation during silent mantra meditation.
- Meditation on OM: Relevance from ancient texts and contemporary science.
- Autonomic changes while mentally repeating two syllables--one meaningful and the other neutral.
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom”
Gautama Siddhartha
Gautama Siddhartha